Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and ...

Bhante Saranapala started his monastic life when he was 10 years old and has been practicing Buddhism ever since. Now 53, the Toronto-based monk leads weekly meditation sessions and monthly retreats ...

Meditation doesn’t "empty the mind", as some imagine. In fact, brain scans reveal that the meditating mind is not in a ...

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus ...

This music is ideal for guiding your mind into a state of deep meditation and spiritual tranquility. Use this track for your ...

Two researchers of Buddhism studied hundreds of Buddhism-related apps and conclude that they tend to mask the symptoms of stress rather than fundamentally addressing the root problem. As it is ...

In early September, Tibetan monks carefully poured grains of colored sand onto a wooden table inside Slough Farm’s barn, transforming the space into a place of ritual, stillness, and attention. The ...

SILVER CITY – Nestled inside a walled house, located one block from the Western New Mexico University campus, the Silver City Zen Center has been offering meditation and Buddhism to Grant County ...

As it is practiced in the US today, mindfulness meditation focuses on being intensely aware, without any sort of judgment, of what one is sensing and feeling in the given moment. Mindfulness practice ...

The Rev. Teijo Munnich has been called "relentless" when it comes to her style of meditation. That's because, she said, most of her Zen Buddhist forbearers have been men. "I think it's been developed ...

Dressed in flowing gold robes, the bald female meditation teacher told us to do nothing. We were to sit silently in our plastic chairs, close our eyes, and focus on our breath. I had never meditated, ...